Foxtrots of the Indian Navy

Description

Cmde. P.R. Franklin, AVSM, VSM (retd.) narrates some true accounts of the Soviet Foxtrot submarines that were in Indian Navy service. The names of the eight Foxtrots have been anagrammed to arrive at the name “Vanshali”, which is the central submarine character of these narratives. The book covers a spectrum of the activities of Foxtrots in the service including facets of training in the USSR, taking possession, bringing them to India, wartime and peacetime activities, and finally beaching a Foxtrot for display as a museum. The book has interesting revelations of a brush with a nuclear submarine in the Arabian Sea and of an Indian submarine’s predicament when confronted with the situation of meeting up with the American Carrier USS Enterprise when it entered the Bay of Bengal during 1971 Indo-Pak war.

Content

Acknowledgement
Preface
Introduction
The Grey Lady of Tallinn
Pre-Commissioning Revelries
The Commissioning
Acceptance and Work Up
Homeward Bound
Warmer Climes
Lagos and Christmas
South Atlantic and the Horn of Africa
The Coming of Age
The Indian Ocean – At Last!
Complexities of Undersea Warfare
A New Way Of Life
A Trip To The Andaman Islands
Girija!
Fleet Exercises
Catching Smugglers
Collision!
War Patrol
Bottom Cleaning In Company
Support Organisations
Off For A Mid-Life Update
Vladivostok
The Inspection
Stripe Wetting
The Piggery
The Rogue Torpedo
Operational Missions
A Foreign Cruise
VIP’s Onboard
Relegation To Second Line
The Final Countdown
Epilogue